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Star Fleet Universe Discussion Board: A Call to Arms Star Fleet: ACTASF: BOOK TWO: Archive through January 23, 2020
By Andrew E Schwenzer (Andrew_Cluetain) on Thursday, September 12, 2019 - 09:25 pm: Edit

Been reading it, before I post stuff about corrections; do you want those here or somewhere else?

Also YAY BOOK 2 IS HERE!

By Will McCammon (Djdood) on Wednesday, September 25, 2019 - 11:10 pm: Edit

When can we begin Book 2.0 after-action reports?

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, September 26, 2019 - 01:28 pm: Edit

We have been receiving them for two weeks now. Jean has a marked up copy for me to fix (scheduled for next week). Email her your reports.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, November 01, 2019 - 03:10 pm: Edit

Help! Photos of Minis: did you send me photos of minis? Can you find the topic I set up or used for gathering these? I need to talk to lots of people who sent lots of photos as I have had all kinds of problems with people sending unlabeled photos. I cannot tell what ship it is, or who sent it. Several people send photos marked "image 1, image 2" which means there is no way to tell which "image 1" is from Ing and which is from Talasco and which is from someone else. DO NOT RE-SEND PHOTOS. Just tell me where the topic is so I can use it to get a grip on this mess.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, November 01, 2019 - 03:42 pm: Edit

I need a photo: Fed DNH. Please use this file format

Fed DNH 3788 Smith.jpg

In a perfect world you would make the photo 1400 pixels wide and have the ship occupy 80% of the horizontal space across that area. But I'll take what I get.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, November 01, 2019 - 06:53 pm: Edit

I need a photo: Klingon E7

By Jack Bohn (Jackbohn) on Friday, November 01, 2019 - 11:48 pm: Edit

Star Fleet Universe Discussion Board: Shapeways Project: Ship Photos Needed has your list of photos, if you hadn't found it yet.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Sunday, November 03, 2019 - 03:25 pm: Edit

I need a photo: SkyHawk Scout (Romulan)

By John Williams (Johndw) on Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - 08:14 am: Edit

Looking at the Klingon F6K Bakurian-class Frignaut, it has Shock (disruptor 3) listed as a trait. But I can not see any situation where the weapons on this ship will fire more than 3AD of disruptor dice. Is shock(x) for all weapons of x type on the ship total? or is the x for each weapon system separately?

The Romulan SparrowHawk J-class Assault Cruiser has Shock (plasma FP, FS) listed as a trait, but I don't see anything in the shock trait rules that mention firing arcs, its supposed to be AD for the weapon type?

I also notice a lot of ships have probe 0 as a trait, is that just to specifically make sure people know they have no probes, compared to just not listing "probe 0" on the trait list leaving it open to question if there are probes?

By Tony L. Thomas (Scoutdad) on Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - 09:50 am: Edit

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Looking at the Klingon F6K Bakurian-class Frignaut, it has Shock (disruptor 3) listed as a trait. But I can not see any situation where the weapons on this ship will fire more than 3AD of disruptor dice. Is shock(x) for all weapons of x type on the ship total? or is the x for each weapon system separately?


The F6 is a vastly over gunned experiment. It’s cobbled together from the parts of several existing units and is not designed for the firepower it mounts.
Due to this, if it fires ALL 3 of its disruptors simultaneously – it is subject to shock. It can fire any pair of them safely, but not all three at once.

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The Romulan SparrowHawk J-class Assault Cruiser has Shock (plasma FP, FS) listed as a trait, but I don't see anything in the shock trait rules that mention firing arcs, its supposed to be AD for the weapon type?


The Shock trait was added to this unit, by ADB after the Book was submitted to them.
Nothing against ADB – this unit should have had Shock added to it, I just missed it.
This is an odd bird… (get it? SparrowHawk… odd bird… haha) Yes, Shock is typically based on weapon AD… but Plasma aren’t like the other weapons.
What is intended is that the SPJ can launch the standard S and the two Fs that are on all other SparrowHawks with no issues. The added type-S torps (the F,P and F, S torps that replace phasers are the ones that cause shock when fired together with the others.
I’ll ponder this and get with ADB… we’ll clarify it. Even if it means adding an exception note to this roster.
Fortunately, edge cases like this are few and far between.

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I also notice a lot of ships have probe 0 as a trait, is that just to specifically make sure people know they have no probes, compared to just not listing "probe 0" on the trait list leaving it open to question if there are probes?


Yes. This is to indicate, with no uncertainty that a ship has zero, nada, zip, zilch, ought, none, NO probe.
The original Mongoose version of the rules listed the trait Probe 1 or Probe 2 on ships that had one or two probes, and no trait on units with no probes. This eventually led to confusion as people asked, “What about this unit… was the number of probes accidentally left off?”
To prevent these types of questions, starting with Book 1.2, we indicate Probe 0 whenever a unit has no probes.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - 11:35 am: Edit

I am stalling ACTASF2-Rev1B (which should have been out by now) to give the sculptors time to add missing ships to Shapeways.

Tony, let me know if I need to fix anything from the above.

By Tony L. Thomas (Scoutdad) on Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - 12:38 pm: Edit

Oops.
I just re-read John's comment about the F6 and shock.
There is an error there. It should be Shock (Disruptor 2).
Line item report coming in.

By Steve Zamboni (Szamboni) on Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - 04:20 pm: Edit

Doesn't the (SFB) F6 have 4 disruptors - 2 on the middle pylon?

By Art Trotman (Drneuro) on Wednesday, November 27, 2019 - 02:35 am: Edit

That is true, the Klingon F6 does have four disrs, not three.
Both in SFB and in Federation Commander.

By Tony L. Thomas (Scoutdad) on Wednesday, November 27, 2019 - 09:29 am: Edit

And... that's what I get for responding in panic mode, while at work - instead of going home to doublecheck the printed stats before replying.

The Book 2 version does have 4 disruptors.
1 in each wing and 2 in the pylons.

This does make the original stat of Shock (Disruptor 3) correct.
The F6 may fire up to 3 disruptors with no penalty... firing the 4th does bring on the risk of shock.

Steve! Disregard the previous comment.
The current version (Book 2a) of the stat is correct as printed.

By Tony L. Thomas (Scoutdad) on Wednesday, November 27, 2019 - 09:32 am: Edit

John Williams: In regards to your previous F6 query and my reply...

The stats in the current version of Book 2 are indeed correct.
The F6 has 4 AD of disruptors, 1 in each wing (F,P arc and F,S arc), 2 in the pylon (F,P,S arc).
That makes the trait:
Shock (Disruptor 3) correct as written.

By John Williams (Johndw) on Thursday, November 28, 2019 - 10:55 am: Edit

Okay, so the shock trait is not that a single weapon line can not be fired above the listed AD, but rather the total number of AD fired from the ship.

By Steven Jones (Finlos) on Saturday, December 28, 2019 - 08:14 pm: Edit

Have ship cards been made for book 2 similar to those currently sold for book 1.2?

If they have not, will they be made? They are a very convenient play aid.

By John Williams (Johndw) on Sunday, December 29, 2019 - 11:53 am: Edit

From what I heard, not yet? They are probably a low priority, kinda makes me want to just make them up myself and send them in unrequested, but I'm also just feeling lazy about it, and its not my job just a hobby.

By Tony L. Thomas (Scoutdad) on Sunday, December 29, 2019 - 07:02 pm: Edit

Battlegroup Murfreesboro has already made them for our local group, but we use a totally different format than ADB... and there are still a couple of units with stats in flux.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Sunday, December 29, 2019 - 11:10 pm: Edit

I didn't do book one and have never looked into doing them. I am okay with selling both of Tony's sets and with someone or anyone doing the original format for book two.

By Tony L. Thomas (Scoutdad) on Thursday, January 09, 2020 - 03:46 pm: Edit

Steve,
Email regarding this item has been sent to you.

By John Williams (Johndw) on Thursday, January 23, 2020 - 07:59 am: Edit

The Gorn Carnosaurus-S destroyer scout is listed as having the "Sensors 2" trait, but I do not believe there is a "Sensors" trait.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, January 23, 2020 - 11:09 am: Edit

We know and I already deleted that from the ACTASF2.2 book I am working on. It's a holdover from an earlier version of the scout rules.

By John Williams (Johndw) on Thursday, January 23, 2020 - 11:10 am: Edit

Okay, any estimate on the release of the next version of the pdf?

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